“... Veronique and Dylan having the mother of all arguments. I mean, it had a plot and a subplot and several walk-on parts....”

“I went out with Veronique to take my mind of you, and when I'm with you I don't feel like I'm on a rebound, I feel like I've come home. It's like my world is just different combinations of black and white, but when you're around everything goes Technicolor. You're still the coolest girl I know".”

“I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck.There can be no other explanation.”

“My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.”

“And once again, there was a table and several worlds between them.”

“What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.”

“When your mother doesn't want to have the sex talk with you any more but instead wants to talk about the possibility that you might have sex on her soft furnishings, it's a watershed moment in any girl's life. I know I'll remember it fondly for many years to come.”